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Chapter 2 posed issues concerning the security of capital, the security of states (national or state security) and human security, with the latter understood as a basic condition of existence for not only sustainable but also progressive forms of social reproduction that allow human beings to express their species-being as defined in Chapter 2. So in Chapters 10 and 11, I address the question: What type of security and what institutions for social reproduction are being most protected in the emerging world order, by what and for whom?
I would like to thank Isabella Bakker and Tim Di Muzio for helpful comments on this chapter.
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr. “Global Governance: Divided World, Shared Destiny and Improvised Accountability.” The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meetings were held in Davos on January 23–28, 2003. “Over 2,400 individuals from business, government, civil society, academia and media [who] participated in some 100 workshops.” See <www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Global+ Agenda+Atelier%5CGlobal+Agenda+Monitor>, accessed April 15, 2003.
Patricia Leigh Brown, “Among California’s S.U.V. Owners, Only a Bit of Guilt in a New’Anti’ Effort.” New York Times, February 8, 2003. This article prompted the following letter to the editor published on February 12, 2003: It is disheartening to hear S.U.V. owners like the Marin County mother: “How else am I going to get four children from A to B?”… Our Toyota Corolla seated four kids easily, my own two plus their friends. How short sighted and arrogant for Americans to think that our super-consumption does not directly, immediately, jeopardize us and the rest of the world through global warming, oil dependency and the plundering of ever scantier resources! John Felstiner, Stanford, Calif., February 8, 2003.
Danny Hakim, “Cloaked in Green, But Guzzling Gas: Japanese Carmakers Have Hybrids, But Their Attention is on Trucks.” New York Times, April 19, 2003.
Mark Townsend, “Panic Room is a Must Have for Rich and Famous.” Observer, June 22, 2002.
Julie Earle, “Personal Protection: Rich, Powerful and Afraid.” Financial Times, April 2, 2003. All quotations in this paragraph were taken from this article. Rudy Giuliani, the Mayor of New York at the time of 9/11, has teamed up with Ernst and Young to begin a consulting firm that advises corporate clients on “security issues.” See <www.giulianipartners.com/pr3.html>
Bob Herbert, “Casualties at Home.” New York Times, March 27, 2003.
Bob Herbert, “Casualties at Home.” New York Times, March 27, 2003. Growing numbers in the USA are also concerned at a new McCarthyism. The 15th anniversary celebration of a well-known baseball movie, Bull Durham, at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., was abruptly canceled by the Hall’s President, Dale Petroskey, a former press secretary under President (and former actor) Ronald Reagan, who feared that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon (two stars of the film) might express opposition at the event to the Iraq war. This caused a public outcry. See “Cooperstown Muffs One.” Op-Ed, New York Times, April 12, 2003.
See David Cay Johnston, “Insurance Loophole Helps Rich.” New York Times, April 1, 2003.
See David Cay Johnston, “Tax Inquiries Fall as Cheating Increases.” New York Times, April 14, 2003.
Timothy Egan, “States, Facing Budget Shortfalls, Cut the Major and the Mundane.” New York Times, April 21, 2003, emphasis added.
<www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/insured/index.html>, accessed March 19, 2003.
I use the adjective “somatic” in the ironic sense of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the imaginary dystopia where one of the key elements of social reproduction is “soma,” a wonder drug developed over several years by thousands of scientists. Soma makes people high and happy, curing any form of melancholy, whilst having no side effects or leaving any hangover.
See Randolph M. Nesse, M.D. “Is the Market on Prozac?” <www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/100.htm1>, accessed 7, April 2003. Nesse’s personal website is <www-personal.umich.edu/-nesse/> According to the World Health Organization, which has recently focused attention on issues of “mental health,” depression, often unrecognized, is now the second most common illness. “Women, at least in the industrialised West, are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men, says the WHO, and depression sufferers are getting younger and younger all the time.” <www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99mar31/health.htm#3>
Monica Davey, “Plans for Families, Degrees and Careers Come to Abrupt End in Iraq.” New York Times, April 13, 2003.
See the extensive article by David M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes, “Military Mirrors a Working-Class America.” New York Times, March 30, 2003.
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Gill, S. (2003). Social Reproduction of Affluence and Human In/Security. In: Bakker, I., Gill, S. (eds) Power, Production and Social Reproduction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522404_10
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